SECTION OVERVIEW OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS 4.2 Reinforcement
CHAPTER 4 Cells and Energy
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SECTION
4.2
OVERVIEW OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Reinforcement
KEY CONCEPT The overall process of photosynthesis produces sugars that store
chemical energy.
Some organisms, called producers, make their own carbon-based molecules, such as carbohydrates, that are broken down to make ATP. The process that many producers, including plants, use to make their own source of food is called photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is a process that captures energy from sunlight to make sugars that store chemical energy.
In plants, photosynthesis takes place in organelles called chloroplasts. Chloroplasts contain molecules, such as chlorophyll, that absorb energy from light. Most of a plant's chloroplasts are in leaf cells specialized for photosynthesis. Chloroplasts have two main parts used for photosynthesis: the grana, which contain disk-shaped structures called thylakoids, and the stroma, which is the fluid that surrounds the grana. Photosynthesis takes place in two main stages.
? The first stage is called the light-dependent reactions. In the light-dependent reactions chlorophyll absorbs energy from sunlight and water molecules are broken down. Energy is transferred to molecules such as ATP. Oxygen is released as a waste product.
? The second stage is called the light-independent reactions. In the light-independent reactions energy from the light-dependent reactions is used to build sugar molecules from carbon dioxide.
The overall, simplified chemical equation for the photosynthesis process is: 6CO2 + 6H2O C6H12O6 + 6O2
1. What is photosynthesis?
2. Where does photosynthesis take place in plants?
3. What happens during the light-dependent reactions?
4. What happens during the light-independent reactions?
5. What are the reactants and the products of photosynthesis?
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